With a long trajectory, Ignacio Sáez has become a reference for future generations of artists in the Basque country. His influence is sustained in the creative reality of an artistic community that seeks to differentiate itself from the particular industries that define contemporary art.

In the spacial deepnes of his drawings, patterns and vails are juxtaposed as intermediators between the flat reality of the signs and the figurative and symbolic referent, which in turns becomes more inaccessible. Paralelly, other works arise from other more documentary supports which reflect this referent which seems to hide in his drawings. His work has a fragmentary character in which each one of its parts seems to be insatisfactory and requires of other mediums to interlace with the different and apparently disjointed levels into a unique gesture.

The elements that appear in Sáez’s work represent his most immediate reality which at the same time portray the imposed conditions of work. In this way, a tension between a tendency of representative nature and a tendency of performative presence in documentary supports like photography or video is established. This dichotomy has its natural origin in his pictorial practice in which form obeys to a gestural process in which the action of the artist’s body has a plastic result. Ignacio Saez’s work consists in a thorough “education” of the body, simultaneous to the submission of the same body to the pictroial sign that reflects the transformation process that the artist develops about himself as an individual.